This eBook is for contact center management and business executives looking for ways to increase the efficiency and productivity of their contact center.
• If yours is an existing contact center with infrastructure that has been built up over the years, this eBook provides best practice steps to break down the resulting application silos, unify them, and improve the operational efficiency of your contact center.
• If yours is a new contact center and you have the opportunity to build your infrastructure from the ground up using modern technologies, this eBook will provide best practices to prevent building application silos.

This whitepaper is for contact center management and business executives looking for ways to optimize the business performance of their contact center.
• If yours is an existing contact center with infrastructure that has been built up over the years, this whitepaper provides bestpractice steps to break down the resulting data silos, unify them, and optimize your contact center for business performance.
• If yours is a new contact center and you have the opportunity to build your infrastructure from the ground up using modern technologies, this whitepaper will provide best practices to prevent building data silos.

Earlier this year, Gartner released the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Call Center Infrastructure, an annual report that analyzes call center infrastructure vendors for completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Explore and compare contact center solutions from today's top vendors and decide which solution is right for you.
This is the fifth consecutive year that Genesys has been named a worldwide Leader for Contact Center Infrastructure. The Genesys Customer Engagement platform (referred to as the Customer Interaction Management or ‘CIM’ platform in the report), is the industry’s most complete platform on which companies can deploy an all-in-one, end-to-end scalable contact center
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Read Now: The Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) is no longer a core component in the contact center and has become a costly technology that is difficult to manage in a distributed enterprise environment. If you are looking to move away from your legacy call center infrastructure — to a modern, multi-channel Contact Center this white paper gives you a blueprint to modernization and replacing your ACD.
Read this insightful resource to learn how building a multi-channel contact center based on IP/SIP technology can enable you to:
• Enhance Customer Experience
• Virtualize your customer service environment
• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Get this whitepaper for best practices, and integration guidelines to help you transition to a modern, SIP/IP-based contact center environment. Read Now.

Customer service has been, and will continue to be, a central concern for most companies. Designing and delivering a positive customer experience relies heavily on the framework and capabilities of your call center or contact center, specifically the ability to support omnichannel interactions.
The IDC MarketScape examines 12 key players in the worldwide contact center infrastructure and software (CCIS) market, analyzing their current capabilities as well as longer term strategies that impact their ability to service customers and gain market share going forward.

The 2017 Magic Quadrant provides Gartner’s annual analysis of the contact center infrastructure vendors. The report examines the innovations driving the market and compares vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Get the complimentary report now to:
• Compare contact center vendors and see which quadrant they are aligned to
• Review the latest market outlook including on premise and cloud deployment choices
• Learn what critical capabilities to consider when evaluating solutions and legacy system replacement
For the ninth year, we are honored to be positioned as a leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide. Gartner placed Genesys highest amongst all vendors in ability to execute and completeness of vision. We believe this unique position validates our mission to power the world’s best customer engagement solutions for organizations of all sizes, both in the cloud and on premise.

Is Your IT Team Ready to Enable Digital Transformation?
Customers want fast access to information and immediate problem resolution on any device, from any location, at any time. It’s up to IT to build the foundation for this digital transformation—and increasingly, it’s cloud-based. Make sure your IT team is on track to deliver.
An omnichannel contact center platform gives you a single, integrated view of the entire customer journey. And as a cloud-based solution, IT has the flexibility to deploy advanced features fast and cost-efficiently.
Read this white paper from Frost & Sullivan for a pragmatic approach to:
• Identify process changes and goals with lines of business
• Benchmark your current infrastructure and technology gaps
• Consider cloud omnichannel solutions for easier deployments and simple scalability

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The 2017 Magic Quadrant provides Gartner’s annual analysis of the contact center infrastructure vendors. The report examines the innovations driving the market and compares vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Get the complimentary report now to:
• Compare contact center vendors and see which quadrant they are aligned to
• Review the latest market outlook including on premise and cloud deployment choices
• Learn what critical capabilities to consider when evaluating solutions and legacy system replacement
For the ninth year, we are honored to be positioned as a leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide. Gartner placed Genesys highest amongst all vendors in ability to execute and completeness of vision. We believe this unique position validates our mission to power the world’s best customer engagement solutions for organizations of all sizes, both in the cloud and on premise.

A cloud contact center can offer many advantages in performance, scalability and security, compared to an on-premise contact center infrastructure. To maximize these advantages, it’s important to determine how best to leverage the cloud to meet your business’s specific needs.

Compare leading contact center infrastructure vendors.
In Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide, Genesys has once again maintained a leadership position. Placed furthest among all vendors in completeness of vision for 10 years and counting, our position continues to validate our mission to power the world’s best customer engagement solutions for organizations of all sizes—both in the cloud and on-premises.
And according to Gartner peer insights, customers agree.
“Great implementation that was on-time and on-budget!” 1
— CTO in the finance industry
“Solid platform with a lot of features at a reasonable cost.” 1
— IT Manager of Software Engineering in the Services Industry
Get the report now to learn:
• How contact center vendors compare and which quadrant they are aligned to
• Analyst views on the strengths and cautions of all participating vendors
• How to evaluate key criteria to guide your decision-making process

Compare leading contact center infrastructure vendors.
In Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide, Genesys has once again maintained a leadership position. Placed furthest among all vendors in completeness of vision for 10 years and counting, our position continues to validate our mission to power the world’s best customer engagement solutions for organizations of all sizes—both in the cloud and on-premises.
And according to Gartner peer insights, customers agree.
“Great implementation that was on-time and on-budget!” 1
— CTO in the finance industry
“Solid platform with a lot of features at a reasonable cost.” 1
— IT Manager of Software Engineering in the Services Industry
Get the report now to learn:
• How contact center vendors compare and which quadrant they are aligned to
• Analyst views on the strengths and cautions of all participating vendors
• How to evaluate key criteria to guide your decision-making process
1 Gartner Peer Insights rev

With artificial intelligence (AI) gaining ground, the right contact center infrastructure (CCI) can be the critical business differentiator for long-term flexibility and scalability. Gartner Research looked at three use cases to evaluate CCI vendors, and Genesys received the highest use case scores (4.16 out of 5) for Customer Engagement Center in Gartner Critical Capabilities.

Black Box can help you get the most out of your technology investment. We partner with customers to identify the right solutions for strategic IT needs that add value to your business. Our portfolios of Wired/Wireless, UCC, and IT Service solutions, and our depth of expertise, deliver positive business outcomes for evolving IT business scenarios.
Black Box takes a vendor-independent approach to deliver the right solution, on the right network. Our long-term, established relationships with best-in-class IT technology providers allow us to offer objective, vendor-neutral solutions designed to meet a broad range of IT requirements.
With more than 4,000 team members & 200 offices in 150 countries, we offer global capabilities with local expertise, and are committed to driving business success through IT excellence. Our passion to IT communications is unsurpassed, and we will work with you to find the ideal solution for today’s challenge while helping to anticipate tomorrow’s needs.

Choosing the right technology to design and orchestrate customer engagement across all digital channels and voice is key to delivering on customer expectations for effortless omnichannel experiences.
Read this eBook to learn how to:
- Modernize your contact center infrastructure, increase workforce efficiency and deliver personalized customer experiences
- Orchestrate omnichannel customer journeys with a single platform for all digital channels and voice
- Evaluate the top five capabilities of a Customer Experience Platform

To meet the growing demand for digital interactions, both CRM and CCI (contact center infrastructure) vendors have added a range of digital channels to their portfolios. CCI vendors are focusing on offering an integrated omnichannel customer engagement platform, to improve their appeal to the customer service software market.
The challenge for IT leaders is to decide which engagement channels should be managed by which vendors. This Gartner report discusses:
- Three procurement strategies IT leaders can adopt to achieve their business goals for omnichannel (voice plus all digital channels)
- Strengths and challenges associated with each strategy
- Key considerations for omnichannel success

Contact center infrastructure (CCI) evaluation is a technically complex process. This challenge is further complicated by the different requirements for omnichannel, high availability and integration as part of a customer engagement center (CEC). Get this report now to learn:
- 9 critical capabilities for evaluating contact center infrastructure
- 3 use cases that reflect most decisions organizations need to make when looking at CCI – multichannel compact suite, high volume call center and customer engagement center
- Which vendor scores the highest in 3 use cases across 9 capabilities

To put it carefully, certain technology decisions at the federal level since 2002 have been questionable. But citing new “Cloud First” policies for implementations in government contact centers, data centers, and federal agencies, cloud initiatives are now showing value by way of cost reductions and broader functionality. Abdo Rabadi of Blue Kite Consultants and Mechele Herres of Interactive Intelligence say even more benefits of the cloud await. Read how the federal government can best achieve them.